NZ TTMRA To Aus
 

I have a NZ CPL and frozen ATPL plus a full and current JAA ATPL with mainly A320 experience. What is the best route to go down in order to gain an Australian ATPL.
Firstly the NZ route I believe I will have to re-sit Air Law (as its over 5 years old) then a flight test. (pretty much the same as converting my JAA ATPL to NZ) Could I then convert that to an Aus ATPL through the TTMRA without having to do anything further?? Or are more law exams and flight tests needed??
The Aus route I believe I would have to sit 3 exams(2 law and IREX) and then sit a flight test, which seems like a little more work.
I would be interested in doing it in an A320 sim which I know Air NZ have in Auckland.
Does anyone have any info regarding all this and is my understanding of all this pretty much right?? Any info greatly appreciated.

Well I dont know what you need to do to get your JAA ATPL recognised in NZ, but when you do converting it to an aussie ATPL/CPL via the TTMRA is easy once you get your head around the paper work.

First, your IR needs to be CURRENT to have it recognised, so when you have that and any ratings you want on your NZ licence sorted just go to the CASA website and find the TTMRA package and slowly work through it. There is no exams or flight tests required, just pay the obscenly high fees for processing and for an ASIC to CASA, give it about 4 - 40 weeks for them to do something and they're post it back to you. Real simple when you've ticked all the boxes on about 20 pieces of paper and found someone to sign some stat dec forms, but its definately better than doin more exams/flight tests, and cheaper!

There is no such thing as a frozen ATPL within the New Zealand system.

You may want to check out the current status on the validity of the exam credits that you have. There has been recent changes to how long they are valid for, the length of validity depends on when you did the exams. In some cases the validity period has been reduced. i.e you may have had ten years when you gained the credit but this could now be reduced to less than ten years.

Which ever way you go there will be plenty of hurdles to jump.

There's no such thing as a frozen ATPL in any ICAO-based licensing system.

It's just a marketing name invented by flight schools, so that students who have spent an obscene amount of money to get a CPL and pass the ATPL exams, can feel better about the loss of their cash and the huge debt they now carry. The victims (sorry, "students") perpetuate the phrase because it makes them feel better, but everyone else knows that all they have is a CPL.

Thanks for the info guys.

Southerner thanks for the heads up, wasnt sure if the Aussies were still going to make me do more exams and flight tests, looks like its just the money and loads of confusing paperwork to figure out!